Archive for the ‘social media’ Category
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Read an interesting article where the CEO of Facebook discusses their take on the future of the social web ( a direct competitor to Google's OpenSocial platform). OpenSocial has had some challenges out of the gate including it's first application being quickly hacked in just 45 minutes.
Mark Zuckerberg discussed the evolution of the social ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Joseph Smarr from Plaxo does a great job describing out how it all works in one presentation:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SYnlH5FXz0&eurl=http://sites.google.com/site/io/opensocial-openid-and-oauth-oh-my]
You can view the slides used in the presentation here.
The future of the web is social, there will be no differentiation between the web and the social web. Facebook is working on a social web ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
A friend of mine who is connected within the Seattle Startup community, sent me this post by Marcelo Calbucci on the Seattle 2.0 blog discussing the frustrations and shortcomings that Startup Managers have of recruiting agencies in general.
I felt compelled to respond, having gone through a similar process, while recruiting ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
I read a good post by Scott Allen labelled Confessions of an Open Networker that included some musings and thoughts from a self-professed "notorious" Open Networker.
I think it does a good job summarizing the diminishing value that this practice can return while providing some tips on how to maximize the utility of ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Read an article that discusses Blocking Social Media Sites at the Workplace .
My company is probably one of the few that will never block social media websites, primarily because we provide social media monitoring, analysis, and engagement tools for Fortune 500 companies.
Being a Human Resources Manager, these are are also important sites when ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Imagine that my surprise when I learned that Open Networking Groups actually have fine print. Once again, someone I don't know sent an invitation to join their network on LinkedIn, which is fine, I don't have anything personally against Open Networking. From a professional standpoint, I don't believe this practice adds much value to ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Why are current Social Network sites' accessibility controlled a simple switch - an on and off switch of permissibility if you will? The major players in the field MySpace, Facebook, even LinkedIn - all have a common theme in whether or not you deem this person a connection / friend or not. If you do ...
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